NAME

       gwhois - generic whois client / server

SYNOPSIS

       gwhois <query>

DESCRIPTION

       gwhois  is a generic whois client. It strives to know for all existing tlds and all ip address ranges the
       appropiate whois server to ask. You can simply call gwhois with a query for some domain or some ip and it
       will ask the right server for you! It can even query webforms which are unfortunately the only query type
       supported by many bad registries.

       gwhois can also be used as a whois server. You can call it from the inetd and make it  accessable  via  a
       normal  standard  whois  client. This allows for example using a windows client and still make use of the
       enhanced features of gwhois.

FILES

       /etc/gwhois/pattern
              The pattern file of gwhois. Contains the list of domain and ip to server  mappings.  It  is  in  a
              machine  readable  regexp  format  but  should  be  easy to understand by humans, too. If you have
              additions and corrections please report them always to the authors!

       /etc/gwhois/debconf.inc
              File created depending on debconf question sending mail. Please do not change manually but instead
              use dpkg-reconfigure!

AUTHOR

       Juliane Holzt <debian@julijane.de>

VERSION

       20100515

Linux                                              19 Jan 2002                                         gwhois(1)